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PRINCETON  .  NEW  JERSEY 

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IN   HONOR  OF  JOHN  A.  MACKAY 
BY  THE  STUDENT   BODY,  1958-1959 


BV  260  .S8 

Stevenson,  Robert  Louis, 

1850-1894. 
A  morning  prayer 


^  ilorning 
Braper 


And  Other   Beautiful  Prayers 

by 

Robert  Louis  Stevenson 


New  York 

The  Dodge  Publishing  Company 

40  East  zpth  Street 


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HE  day  returns  and  brings 
us  the  petty  round  of  irri- 
tating concerns  and  duties. 
Help  us  to  play  the  man, 
help  us  to  perform  them  with  laughter 
and  kind  faces,  let  cheerfulness  abound 
with  industry.  Give  us  to  go  blithely  on 
our  business  all  this  day,  bring  us  to  our 
resting  beds  weary  and  content  and  un- 
dishonored,  and  grant  us  in  the  end  the 
gift  of  sleep. 


^t  Cbenmg 

ORD,  look  down  upon  our- 
selves and  upon  our  absent 
dear  ones.  Help  us  and 
them.  Give  us  health, 
food,  bright  weather,  and  light  hearts. 
In  what  we  meditate  of  evil,  frustrate  our 
will;  in  what  of  good,  further  our  en- 
deavors. Cause  injuries  to  be  forgot  and 
benefits  to  be  remembered.  Let  us  lie 
down  without  fear  and  awake  and  arise 
with  exultation,  for  His  sake.     Amen. 


F  there  be  some  weaker 

one, 
Give    me    strength    to 
help  him  on ; 

If  a  blinder  soul  there  be 
Lei  me  guide  him  nearer  Thee ; 
Make  my  mortal  dreams  come  true 
With  the  work  I  fain  would  do ; 
Clothe  with  life  the  weak  intent, 
Let  me  be  the  thing  I  meant; 
Let  me  find  in  Thy  employ, 
Peace  that  dearer  is  than  joy; 
Out  of  self  to  love  be  led, 
And  to  Heaven  acclimated, 
Until  all  things  sweet  and  good 

Seem  my  natural  habitude. 

— /.  G,  Whittier 


AM  quite  sure  that  one 
secret  of  youth  is  to 
keep  up  with  deter- 
mined and  steady  hand, 

one's     own      tone,     to 
avoid  ruts  and  narrowing  circles. 

— F.  IV.  Ware 


T  is  not  what  a  man 
gets,  but  what  a  man 
is,  that  he  should  think 
of.  He  should  first 
think  of  his  character, 
and  then  of  his  condition.  He  that 
has  character  need  have  no  fear  of 
his  condition.  Character  will  draw 
condition  after  it. 

//.  W.  Beechcr 


"F    any    little    word    of 

ours  can  make  one  life 

the  brighter; 

If  any   little    song   of 

ours   can   make  one 

heart  the  lighter; 

God  help  us  speak  that  little  word, 

and  take  our  bit  of  singing, 
And    drop    it   in   some   lonely  vale, 
and  set  the  echoes  ringing. 


^ET  the  weakest,  let  the 
W  humblest  remember 
that  in  his  daily  course 
he  can,  if  he  will,  shed 
around  him  almost  a 
heaven.  Kindly  words,  sympathiz- 
ing attentions,  watchfulness  against 
wounding  men's  sensitiveness — 
these  cost  very  little  but  they  are 
priceless  in  their  value. 

— F,  IV.  Robertson 


EXPECT  to  pass 
through  this  life  but 
once.  If,  therefore, 
there  is  any  kindness 
I  can  show,  or  any 
good  I  can  do  to  any  fellow- 
being,  let  me  do  it  now,  let  me  not 
defer  it,  for  I  shall  not  pass  this 
way  again. 

— Mrs,  A,  B,  Hegeman 


^1 OU  will  find  as  you  look 
^''^-   back    upon    your    life 
that  the  moments  that 
_^^^   stand  out,  the  moments 


when  you  have  really  lived,  are  the 
moments  when  you  have  done  things 
in  a  spirit  of  love. 

— Henry  Drummond 


HE  little  worries  which 

we  meet  each  day, 
May  be  as  stumbling- 
blocks     across    our 
way, 
Or  we    may  make    them  stepping 
stones  to  be 

Of  grace,  O  Lord  to  Thee. 

— A.  E,  Hamilton 


UARD  well  within  your- 
3  self  that  treasure,  kind- 
ness.       Know  how    to 
give  without  hesitation, 
how  to  lose  without  re- 
gret, how  to  acquire  without  mean- 
ess. 

— George  Sand 


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